NPTN

NPTN
Identifiers
Aliases NPTN, GP55, GP65, SDFR1, SDR1, np55, np65, neuroplastin
External IDs HomoloGene: 7531 GeneCards: NPTN
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

27020

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Ensembl

ENSG00000156642

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UniProt

Q9Y639

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RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001161363
NM_001161364
NM_012428
NM_017455

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RefSeq (protein)

NP_001154835.1
NP_001154836.1
NP_036560.1
NP_059429.1

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Location (UCSC) Chr 15: 73.56 – 73.63 Mb n/a
PubMed search [1] n/a
Wikidata
View/Edit Human

Neuroplastin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NPTN gene.[2][3][4]

Neuroplastin is a type I transmembrane protein belonging to the Ig superfamily. The protein is believed to be involved in cell-cell interactions or cell-substrate interactions. The alpha and beta transcripts show differential localization within the brain.[4]

In 2014, in a study led by Dr. Sylvane Desrivières, of King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry found that "teenagers who had a highly functioning NPTN gene performed better in intelligence tests"[5][6][7]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. Andersson B, Wentland MA, Ricafrente JY, Liu W, Gibbs RA (Jun 1996). "A "double adaptor" method for improved shotgun library construction". Anal Biochem. 236 (1): 107–13. doi:10.1006/abio.1996.0138. PMID 8619474.
  3. Yu W, Andersson B, Worley KC, Muzny DM, Ding Y, Liu W, Ricafrente JY, Wentland MA, Lennon G, Gibbs RA (Jun 1997). "Large-scale concatenation cDNA sequencing". Genome Res. 7 (4): 353–8. doi:10.1101/gr.7.4.353. PMC 139146Freely accessible. PMID 9110174.
  4. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: NPTN neuroplastin".
  5. Is intelligence written in the genes?
  6. Researchers Find Gene that Links Grey Matter with Intelligence
  7. Single nucleotide polymorphism in the neuroplastin locus associates with cortical thickness and intellectual ability in adolescents

Further reading


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